22 January History


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  • 1689    -    England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
  • 1807    -    President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
  • 1813    -    During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
  • 1824    -    A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.
  • 1863    -    In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March."
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  • 1879    -    Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa.
  • 1905    -    Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
  • 1912    -    Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
  • 1913    -    Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.
  • 1930    -    Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.
  • 1932    -    Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
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  • 1939    -    A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
  • 1943    -    Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.
  • 1944    -    U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.
  • 1971    -    Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
  • 1979    -    Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
  • 1982    -    President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.
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  • 22 January Birthdays

  • 1440    -    Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia.
  • 1561    -    Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, essayist (The Advancement of Learning).
  • 1788    -    Lord George Byron, English romantic poet ("Lara," "Don Juan.")
  • 1874    -    D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance).
  • 1890    -    Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 1906    -    Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer aviator.